The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Two: #52 through #75

Is there a Cozen and Cozwen on here? Or are my eyes going bad with age?
Cozen, let me know where you're misattributed and I'll fix.

nah it's fine I'm just grousing; don't really follow ilx polls but sterling effort here john

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hey somebody remembered their old password

Aw, no update today?

Two way tie for #54.

#54: Fallout 3: Broken Steel – 360 – 15 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://images.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/145414_S/Fallout-3-Broken-Steel-Impressions.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83_jcXwTkA

Jordan: Broken Steel adds a "Puppies!" perk so that if your dog gets killed you can just grab a new one from the litter.

http://www.perezstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fallout3-dlc-broken-steel-5.jpg

Ars Technica Review

Goole: BS raises the level cap to thirty and extends the main story. If you're gonna get only one bit of DLC for Fallout, I'd get this one.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/9/95/Broken_Steel_liberty_prime.jpg/800px-Broken_Steel_liberty_prime.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7HGuvDYrw

MH: I'm amazed by the power of the Tesla Cannon; it completely sucks in a close-quarters firefight but if your character stats are reasonably high, you can pick off Enclave guys from what seems like a half mile away.

http://images.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/145416_S/Fallout-3-Broken-Steel-Impressions.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xbkDASiMGU

CraigG : Fallout was the game I played most in '09, but it's an '08 game. Hooray, then, for the DLC. Broken Steel was a good, tight bunch of missions with a fairly linear story line which would normally be a bad thing, but I think it's exactly what the DLC needed to be. I think it was made all the more enjoyable because it raised the level cap, so your character was leveling up, plus you are killing so much enclave that you just keep filling your pockets with great armor and guns. I did have a few embarrassing moments though where I would be repairing my armor with some newly acquired armor and end up with my dude running about in his pants for a while accidentally, but I think that's a Fallout staple. My only criticism of this expansion was the albino radscorpions.

#54: Madworld – Wii – 15 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://joerayw.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mad-world-1-wii_0081.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fT-dQHk4Y

Designing for the Wii remote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdACMvxcuvM

Jamescobo: It reminds me of both Jet Grind Radio (though way more violent -- it's pretty much more violent than everything) but with same use of directional input and, of course, God Hand (the slightly clunky tank controls, the camera woes, the basic design principle of advancing by wrecking everyone's shit). Admittedly MadWorld's kill-motherfuckers-creatively mechanic isn't anywhere near as deep as God Hand's seizure-inducingly deep combo system, but it's plenty of fun in its own right. My only complaint is that I keep accidentally pressing the pause button while I'm wildly gesticulating with the Wiimote, but I guess it's not fair to hold game designers accountable for my spazziness. Think of this as No More Heroes without all the "LOL, production values" shit or God Hand for people who thought it was too hard and with all the in-jokey stuff replaced with an immediately accessible aesthetic.

http://otakuplus.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/jack2.jpg

Zero Punctuation Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fT-dQHk4Y

Only twelve bucks!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Llxf0Z81zHA/SWVDNzMlhPI/AAAAAAAADJs/1XZmBkPFgkk/s400/marv.jpg

”Sega sticks by Mature Wii releases"

http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/games/uploaded_images/madworld-753339.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx9V10PsLuw

Jeff LeVine: My major complaints: while the black and white artwork looks really good, it doesn't serve the gameplay. It's hard to see the tires and signposts and spiked walls you need to kill guys with to rack up the points because of the monochromatic color scheme. The 3D movement and camera is awkward. The Wii motion controls are lame; as in No More Heroes, the movement choices just feel arbitrary and don't immerse you any more into the game than standard button presses would, but are more unpleasant and harder to remember than just pressing buttons.

http://darkzero.co.uk/asset/2009/04/madworld_02.jpg

"More Madworld in Wii’s future"

Jjjusten: I make no attempt to hide how angry a Wii owner I am. I'm one of those guys that look at this particular console with a little more bile rising in my throat every week that a new fitness program or pet management simulator falls like a turd onto the new release list. So when MadWorld rolled out, I was very glad to see it. The game has its faults: there are times where the wiimote works against you rather than for you; songs are AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL and the game is SHORT. All those caveats fall away the first time you impale someone with a signpost, necklace them with a tire, jam firecrackers down their throat and THEN bisect them by slamming their body in a dumpster. Boss battles are even more insane. Anybody who whines like a baby about the lack of hardcore games on the wii that didn't buy this is a jerk and a traitor and I hope they realize that I will hold them directly responsible when "Wii Play Tamagochi Fitness 3" sells 40 billion copies.

to this day, I have MadWorld envy

Two way tie for #52.

#52: Big Word Puzzle Book – DS – 15 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqpPG3A_WnU/SgQE4Vunc3I/AAAAAAAAAV8/l6Dk7bhBzHg/s320/3658c.jpg

Forksclovetofu: This game is as good an argument for importing/R4 for US DS players as you’re likely to find. It’s also woefully under served on the web; even Metacritic doesn’t list it. So here’s the skinny: BWPB is eight word games bundled in a fairly simple but spectacularly effective package. There’s hangman, find-a-word, several variations on coded crossword puzzles, a solitaire game that’s a lot like Wordjong and the game’s true killer app: “guess what word the DS is thinking of” which I’ll talk about more in a second.
There’s running statistics to show how well you’ve done on each of the game’s four difficulty levels (expert is a bitch almost every time) and when you beat a game, you get a hint chit that can be used to get an in-game clue. Every win also scrolls through a list of the game’s dictionary words, reeling the entire English language backwards from Z to A. I’m on “wrangles” now; the game offers multiple saves so that multiple users can compete for most playtime wins.
Back to “guess the word” here: you touch type in a word, any English language word. The game pushes the word to the top of the screen (signifying that the word the DS is guessing is alphabetically following the word you’ve typed) or to the bottom (the word the DS is guessing falls alphabetically before). The next word gives you a proscribed range. So let’s say you start with “manic” and follow up with “zygote”. Okay, now you know the word falls alphabetically between “MA” and “ZY”. “Rabbit”? Okay, between “manic” and “rabbit”. And so on. The goal is to guess in as few tries as possible, but more often you’ll be happy just to figure out the secret. As origin, origins, originally, originator, originate, originates, origination and so forth are all read as different words, the endgame can be maddening… but the sense of accomplishment is great when you nail it.
On separate occasions, I played BWPB with small children on easy, my girlfriend’s seventy-year old parents, through a three hour plane trip, at dinner parties and in the hospital. It’s the perfect swiss army knife of a time waster for groups or for single play. It’s nothing spectacular but it the few things it does, it does incredibly well.

http://www.romulation.net/files/screenshots/roms/NDS/26763/s441e5c76491714df37de2ce2e2f21fdf.jpg

Jamescobo: Every time anyone bashes the majestic and unassailable Big Word Puzzle Book, I resolve to send in another socko C&P ballot with it at #1.

#52: Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes – DS – 15 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6NggJUPQfY

Metacritic

http://www.hookedgamers.com/images/838/might_and_magic_clash_of_heroes/screenshot_nds_might_and_magic_clash_of_heroes019.jpg

Developer Interview

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/mightandmagicclash.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2ohHRC5jE

Forksclovetofu: Capy, makers of this year’s underrated Critter Crunch, brought most of the same gameplay and approach to the new DS Might and Magic, turning what anyone might rightly assume to be a Puzzle Quest or dungeon crawl clone into something unique, complex and engaging. The gameplay can occasionally get frustrating but the surprisingly deep RPG elements and brief “battles” keep new characters and challenges incoming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A14GD4diwg

Nathan Vella Interview

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuav3o43vE1qzp9weo1_400.jpg

YAY MADWORLD

ugh my computer just hates this thread, no matter what browser i use. forks can i respectfully request that the next ones be not so flash-heavy? as it's pretty much unusable for me.

We're moving here tomorrow S1ocks:
The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Three: #51 through #21
I didn't intentionally add any flash? Is it maybe the youtubes?